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Latest news citing our data on violent conflict in the Bangsamoro from local and international media outlets.

Mindanaoans getting on with the job despite COVID-19

17 September 2020 Philippine Star Steven J. Robinson

No matter where you are in the Philippines – or the world, for that matter – the impacts of COVID-19 have spread far beyond the illness itself. Lockdown has seen every community struggle with economic, logistical and mental health impacts. In places already suffering from conflict, the effects have been even greater.

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Violence intensifies over Bangsamoro land

01 July 2020 Tribune Erwin Mascarinas

Intensifying incidences of violence due to land ownership disputes in the Bangsamoro region have been captured by a non-government organization’s (NGO) reporting system in the recent months amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

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Group reports conflict over land, ethnicity, religion in Bangsamoro

26 June 2020 Business Mirror Jonathan Mayuga

Peace-building nongovernment organization (NGO) International Alert Philippines (IAP) has expressed alarm over what it described as “raging conflicts” over land and natural resources in the Bangsamoro amid the Covid-19 pandemic in the last two months.

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Philippine Forces Kill 4 Abu Sayyaf Suspects in Raid Near Manila

26 June 2020 Benar News Luis Liwanag and Jeoffrey Maitem

International Alert, a London-based NGO that advocates for conflict resolution, said the anti-terror law would only result in wrongful arrests and fuel more violence in Mindanao, the largest of the islands in the Philippine south.

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Violence over land intesifies in Mindanao's Moro region

25 June 2020 Licas Erwin Mascarinas

The non-government group International Alert reported that the Bangsamoro region in Mindanao is facing an intensification of violence over land despite the coronavirus pandemic.

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Peacebuilding org supports registration of online businesses to help entrepreneurs in informal economy, protect consumers

17 June 2020 Business World (also published in print) Marifi Jara

International Alert Philippines backs the government’s campaign to register online businesses, saying this is an opportunity to extend a more inclusive assistance program to entrepreneurs in the informal economy as well as a means of protecting consumers.

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Ramadan in lockdown: the habits we break, the values we relearn

25 May 2020 Business World Nina Bahjin Imlan

Muslim Filipinos certainly met this year’s Ramadan with exuberance, but the lockdowns brought new concerns especially to those who are economically disenfranchised to begin with.

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[OPINION] Ramadan on lockdown: The habits we break, the values we relearn

24 May 2020 Rappler Nina Bahjin Imlan

For a fasting person [under quarantine], it was a different level of hardship altogether'

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IS-linked groups monitored in Marawi

30 April 2020 Philippine Star Jaime Laude

Terror groups with links to the Islamic State (IS) have been sighted in Marawi City and nearby areas, according to a non-government conflict monitoring group.

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International Monitoring Group, naglabas ng conflict alert sa gitna ng COVID-19 pandemic

29 April 2020 RMN News RMN News

In the Special Critical Events Monitoring System Bulletin, from February 17 to April 2020, International Alert Philippines monitored incidents of violent extremism during the pandemic.

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Reports: Indonesian, Philippine Militants Bolster Ranks, Launch Attacks During Pandemic

29 April 2020 Benar News Ronna Nirmala, Keisyah Aprilia and Jeoffrey Maitem, Jakarta and Palu, Indonesia, and Cotabato, Philippines

Islamic State-linked groups in Indonesia and the Philippines have taken advantage of the coronavirus pandemic by launching attacks or conducting recruitment drives, a think-tank and a conflict-monitoring group said in separate reports this week.

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[OPINION] The pandemic's forgotten faces: The plight of Muslims, women, and other minorities

24 April 2020 Rappler Nina Bahjin Imlan

Plans and programs to address this pandemic should be evidence-based and sensitive to culture, conflict, and context'

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Forgotten: Muslims and other minorities (shortened version)

24 April 2020 Inquirer (also published in print) Nina Bahjin Imlan

Muslims in Metro Manila who perished from the coronavirus were stigmatized and refused burial even in Muslim cemeteries. Given these reports, International Alert Philippines lobbied key agencies and legislators.

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NGO: COVID-19 relief packs not sensitive to needs of Muslim Filipinos

23 April 2020 ANC Matters of Fact, ABS-CBN TV Interview with Christian Esguerra

International Alert Philippines's Country Manager and Senior Project Officer for Youth and Women discuss implications of #COVID19 this coming Ramadhan and tensions brought about by the pandemic in the Bangsamoro and in Metro Manila, as captured by our Critical Events Monitoring System (CEMS):

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In time of Covid-19, GIS-aided maps find better use in central Mindanao

07 April 2020 Business Mirror Manuel Cayon

Some towns in the central Mindanao provinces of Lanao del Sur and Maguindanao have started to adapt satellite-aided geographical information system (GIS) maps to plot hotspots of the corona virus disease 2019 (Covid-19) and other vital information on hazard and conflict.

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Bangsamoro region positions 8 COVID-19 test centers

07 April 2020 Business World Marifi S. Jara

Eight medical facilities in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) are being positioned as testing laboratories for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), including one each in its three island provinces.

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LGUs use tech maps for Covid-19 tracing

06 April 2020 The Manila Times Masiding Noor Yahya

Local chief executives in Lanao del Sur and Maguindanao in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) are using digital thematic overlay maps to monitor and trace coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases.

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BARMM LGUs use cutting-edge maps for Covid-19 emergency response

06 April 2020 Philippine News Agency Noel Punzalan

Several local government units (LGUs) n Lanao del Sur and Maguindanao are now using thematic overlay maps as graphic indicators for 2019 coronavirus disease (Covid-19) hotspots, among others.

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Official: PNP should've consulted agenices for Muslim students' info

04 March 2020 CNN Philippines Gerg Cahiles

The Philippine National Police apologizes for a directive allegedly profiling Muslim students in Metro Manila, saying there was no ill-intent. However, the presidential peace adviser points out police should not have requested the information about Muslim students from schools.

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Mindanao and NCR young leaders speak out: Let’s end discrimination

25 February 2020 Business World Business World

Several youth groups in Mindanao and the National Capital Region (NCR) involved in peace-building and development programs said the recent police order to profile Muslim youth in the nation’s capital is not just “an act of identity and religious discrimination” but also “deepens the prejudice and oppression” against followers of Islam.

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